In Grow a Garden, pets aren’t just cute companions – they’re an essential mechanic that makes your garden more efficient. Pets provide powerful passive abilities, such as boosting crop growth, digging up seeds, duplicating fruits, or even applying mutations. Choosing the right ones can significantly speed up your progress.
This guide covers the best pets in each egg group, a full tier list of pet abilities, and how to manage and feed your pets.
Best Pets in Each Egg Group
While many pets are useful, some stand out as the best choice in their rarity tier:
- Common Egg: Golden Lab – digs up random seeds.
- Uncommon Egg: Deer – chance for berry crops to stay after harvest.
- Rare Egg: Pig – emits an aura that increases crop variants.
- Legendary Egg: Polar Bear – adds Frozen/Chilled mutations to nearby fruit.
- Mythical Egg: Red Giant Ant – chance to duplicate harvested crops.
- Bug (Divine) Egg: Dragonfly – can turn random fruits into gold.
- Bee Egg: Bear Bee – transforms fruits into Honey Glazed.
- Anti-Bee Egg: Disco Bee – rare chance to create Disco fruit.
Pet Tier List and Abilities
There are currently six main tiers of pets: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, Mythical, and Divine (Bug). Each egg offers different chances for pets with unique abilities.
Common Egg (50,000 Sheckles)
- Golden Lab (33%) – 10% chance every 60s to dig up a random seed.
- Dog (33%) – 5% chance every 60s to dig up a random seed.
- Bunny (33%) – Every 40s, eats a carrot and boosts its value 1.5x.
Note: Bees also appear as event-exclusive Common pets during special updates.
Uncommon Egg (150,000 Sheckles)
- Black Bunny (25%) – Eats carrots for value bonus.
- Cat (25%) – Naps every 80s, making nearby fruit larger.
- Chicken (25%) – Increases egg hatch speed by 10%.
- Deer (25%) – 3% chance for berries to remain after harvest.
Rare Egg (600,000 Sheckles)
- Orange Tabby (33%) – Buffs nearby fruits after napping.
- Spotted Deer (25%) – Improves berry persistence.
- Pig (16%) – Aura doubling crop variants within range.
- Rooster (16.6%) – Increases hatch speed by 20%.
- Monkey (8.3%) – Chance to refund fruit when selling.
Legendary Egg (3,000,000 Sheckles)
- Cow (42.5%) – Boosts nearby plant growth by 1.12x.
- Silver Monkey (42.5%) – 8% refund chance when selling fruit.
- Sea Otter (10.6%) – Waters nearby plants every 30s.
- Turtle (2.1%) – Sprinklers last 20% longer.
- Polar Bear (2.1%) – Adds Frozen/Chilled mutations to fruits.
Mythical Egg (8,000,000 Sheckles)
- Grey Mouse (35.7%) – Grants bonus XP and faster movement.
- Brown Mouse (25.8%) – Extra XP and increased jump height.
- Squirrel (26.8%) – Chance to not consume a seed when planting.
- Red Giant Ant (8.9%) – Duplication chance for crops.
- Red Fox (1.8%) – Steals seeds from other players’ crops.
Bug (Divine) Egg (50,000,000 Sheckles)
- Snail (40%) – Chance for plants to drop seeds when harvested.
- Giant Ant (30%) – 10% duplication chance for fruits.
- Caterpillar (25%) – Speeds leafy plant growth.
- Praying Mantis (4%) – Temporarily boosts mutation chance nearby.
- Dragonfly (1%) – Turns a random fruit gold every 5 minutes.
Event Pets: Bees and Anti-Bees
Special events introduce limited-time pets:
- Bee Egg (purchased with Honey) – includes Bee, Honey Bee, Bear Bee, Petal Bee, Queen Bee.
- Anti-Bee Egg – includes Wasp, Tarantula Hawk, Moth, Butterfly, Disco Bee.
These pets often have unique mutation effects like Pollinated, Honey Glazed, Rainbow, or Disco fruits.
Pet Management: Feeding and Slots
At first, you can only have 3 pets active. Trade extra pets to Raphael at the Pet Shop to unlock up to 5 additional slots.
To feed pets, click on them and choose Feed while holding a fruit or crop. The amount of hunger restored depends on the food’s size and rarity.
Pets stop growing if their hunger bar reaches 0, so always keep them fed. Larger and mutated fruits restore more hunger, helping pets age and improve abilities faster.
Final Thoughts
Pets are essential to long-term success in Grow a Garden. From digging up rare seeds to duplicating crops or applying powerful mutations, they make your garden more profitable and fun. Prioritize hatching eggs when you can afford them, focus on the best pet per tier, and don’t forget to feed them regularly so their abilities keep improving.
